Hey guys! Time for our second prompt and I hope you guys get involved and enjoy it. I really really appreciated the participation everyone put into last weeks discussion on Chade. We went in alot of cool directions. Anyways click below to continue reading.

This week, after becoming knee deep in "Fools Errand", I've decided that we have to to discuss The Fool. My question for you guys is this: What is your favorite "incarnation" of the Fool? Is it Amber? Lord Golden? The Jester? Fitzs Friend?

( You must know moar. Click to do so. )

(I apologise if this has been discussed before. I had a look back through some entries, but I couldn't find it, so I thought I'd make a little discussion about it. There are no spoilers here)

Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles)

Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in this standalone adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Many have died along the way. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. One such is Thymara. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching; as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons. But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly; some seem witless and bestial. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them. To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist...

Taken from http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007273746/ref=s9_simb_gw_xu_s0_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=059QFWQ37KKGYH1JTS9P&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294

---

So, how do you feel about this?

Instantly, I was ecstatic. More books! Whee! I'm currently on my third reading of the series (Farsser, Liveship, Tawny), and have just finished Fool's Errand, so I'm fully immersed in the books and the world again, and love the idea that there are going to be some more for me to read once I get to the end of Fool's Fate.

I am, however, a little dubious. These characters are all new, and whilst I was interested in the serpents and their struggle to turn into dragons, I'm not sure whether I'd like to read solely about them. However, I did have the same trepidation about the Liveship books (in regards to the fact they aren't about Fitz at all), and I loved them no less, after reading.

So what do you think about the new set of books?
Are you excited?
What do you think will happen?
What characters from the other books do you think will appear?
What characters would you like to see?

I'll be back with my thoughts later. I need to think some more!

Ok, so I had no idea that it's been a month since I last spammed posted anything. Time flies. To be honest June was a terrible month for me and I haven't been drawing like, at all.

But I have been picking at a WIP, the digitally colored version of the Amber and Paragon picture. I decided I wanted to color it this way so I wouldn't have to re-draw the image :p Size difference problem be damned.


( yay colorz )
Comments are always appreciated.

I hope this doesn't step on anyones toes because I'm not sure of the heirarchy here but...I've decided that I want to start a weekly prompt to our quaint little community. It'd just be a random subject that has to do with the world that Fitz lives in to promote discussion and connections between us. If you guys mind and want me to stop doing this (I'll post one every Thursday) just let me know and I'll stop.

Our first prompt will be one of the bigger characters and, in my opinion, one of the more well developed characters: Chade Fallstar.

( Click to read more of our first prompt. )

I find it amusing that I take such a keen satisfaction in knowing that Robin Hobb has friended me back on LJ. ^^

...or is it just me?

Alright, instead of horrible punning, I will bring to you my recent baby of the past two weeks. No, I am not always this slow.

( He painted it himself! )
( The Fool's door-painting skills are unrivaled. )

As a random thought. Has it occurred to anyone that Nighteyes was given to Fitz as his life's share of common sense embodied in a separate creature? Thus, we observe Fitz doing dumb things before Nighteyes appeared, doing dumb things against Nighteyes's better judgment while he was there, and doing myriads of dumb things with special relish after Nighteyes was no more. The worst decisions in Fitz's life were made after Fool's Errand, were they not?

Before I begin: I love Robin Hobb. I've read everything I could get my hands on including the awesome Meghan Lindholm work she's done. The title of the post was meant to be joking.

If you haven't finished reading the Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Trilogy and Tawny Man Trilogy you may want to skip this. I'm going to try and include as few SPOILERS as possible though (and statute of limitations on the 1st trilogy--it's over 10 years old. And Sephiroth kills Aeris).

So, Dragons have been gone for millenia. In the Livehsip books T. the last female one finds serpents and tries to get them up the river to metamorphose into adult dragons to carry on the species. They don't come out right, being too old. The Tawny Man books find T. hovering about Fitz's mind trying to find clues about a black male dragon rumored to still exist. Long story short, he's freed and his sob story is "I couldn't find any other dragons or serpents, so I came up here to die." Oh, boo hoo. T. found the serpents thousands of years later (dragons are long-lived suckers) and managed to do what he didn't have the imagination to do. Was it because he's a stupid male? Or did Hobb suddenly go "Oh, crap, quick, pirates!" like Shakespeare did when he sent Hamlet off to be killed in England? We may never know.
P.S. The part where I'm paraphrasing the male's tale comes from "Fool's Fate" --the U.S.A. paperback edition page 542.

If you have any thoughts, please feel free to discuss!

I've promised this to a handful of people bad excuse, I know, and it was drawn in a flurry of wild inspiration, and then painstakingly colored over the next few days because, unlike some people's, my pencil drawings don't look like much at all. Not that my colored ones do, shh

It's semi-canonic, though. United by a common theme. I call it...

( Whose opinion maters the most. )

AND LOL I MADE A FUNNY WANNA SEE?

( Naked White Ladies )

And since I think there's entirely not enough arguing in this community, I want your opinions on this. It occurred to me that, possibly, Hobb had meant for the ending to be so unsatisfying. Dissected to a simple bouquet of facts, minus all of the emotional build-up, what exactly happened? The answer is glaringly obvious - Fitz has gotten what he hopelessly longed for since the middle of book one! Fitz is the main character, we sympathize with him - so why exactly is it that when he is finally content, we yell up and start telling him it's not what he wants? My God, and Sa help me if I'm not within a mile radius of the truth, but it's obvious through the style of writing that he's not, indeed, content, and that it's not, indeed, the finale. As I already told someone in this community, the ending is painfully Hobb-style - her trademark style for describing the calm before the storm, that is! Is it possible that Hobb, by a stealthy literary device, has succeeded in not telling, but showing us that Fitz doesn't know what he wants? He's definitely done his fair share of prancing around completely convinced with a Genius Idea Of FitzChivalry Farseer Bless Him,  for it to turn out his dumbest plan yet. Take witholding Nettle from Skill training. Take trying to keep the Fool away from Aslevjal. Take his many instances of tarrying before telling a key bit of information to Chade. And it has seemed such a good idea at the time! I don't know if this comm is filled with hard-hearted skeptics, but as for yours truly, why he read the parts where you're supposed to agree with Fitz avidly nodding, and the parts where that ends him up in a dungheap with theatrical eye-widening - "Really? But however did that go wrong?" - at least half the time. Hobb is just a good author like that. Mayhaps, the ending has been the Final Fuck-up of FitzChivalry Farseer? Of epic proportions, and leaving enough space to write more should she want to, but ending things up should she not. Because if I made a comic of all things that could go wrong with his and Molly's relationship, it would have been even longer than the one you see above.

Molly just... Isn't lucky in love. To be tied so early to such an idiot? But that is a completely different discussion, and I plan to go one question at a time. Discuss. And don't forget to comment the comic, haha

Howdy, dudes and dudettes.

Here's a quick fanart I've just made. Hasty & small, but, hey, it's Althea, so it's only fitting (from The Liveship Traders, in case someone hasn't read it). I just love this woman, so carefree, so strong-willed, so cat-like. I guess I should have drawn a ship in the background, but, hey, I never intended to spend too much time on this drawing (plus, it sure would look like crap, I mean, seriously, me drawing a ship? Ahaha.) And then, it looks like she's climbing towards the crow's nest (kinda/why not).

Feel free to comment, but have mercy, remember, I'm a poor artist compared to you guys. I can't help it, I'm bathing in mediocrity. I seem to be destined to stare in awe at other's works. (any idea who I mean...? *___*)



Why the hell am I bothering you with my works, then? Well...

Hey! So I'm new to this community, in fact I joined for a specific reason, but I'm fairly sure I'm going to stick around because I adore these books so much, but I have a specific request and thought maybe people here could help?

I'm planning a sleeve tattoo for my left arm, with a literary theme, so quotes and images and characters from my favourite books, and whilst LotR will always be my favourite book, the Fool is probably my favourite fictional character ever, and so obviously I want him to feature as a part of my tattoo.

I found this picture on google which I adore:

http://www.stephenyoull.com/images/Fantasy/Medium/Golden-Fool.jpg

and was wondering if people had anything similar they could recommend, or any other particular favourite pieces of artwork of the Fool, and if you know anything about tattoos and think it's a piece of artwork that could be easily adapted into a tattoo-able desgin that would be especially awesome.

I prefer the Fool as described in the Tawny Man series, and also I want to have a couple of lines or a verse from the last dance of chances poe so if you have an image that seems appropriate with this poem that would also be awesome, but not a necessity!

Anyway, sorry for the randomness of this post, I hope someone can help.

Really, the only reason I've waited to make this post is because I wated to finish the third of my awful fanworks. Have fun breaking your eyes over my long-winded metaphors and my controversial opinions. Enjoy the art.

( I believe some introductions are in order... )

( ...Or you could just cut to the pics. )

Any last words?

I've a few. Did anyone but me notice how being Witted in their society is a lot like being gay some 100 years ago in America?

Does anyone have a working link to the Farseer and Tawny Man rants that everyone keeps talking about?

And last, but definitely not least, if the Black Man and the White Woman have kids, will they be gray?

I've sort of inverted my sleeping scedile these days, so I spend the nights drawing Farseer characters. Soo this is something I saw in my mind one day when my stomach was hurting and I was trying to think happy thoughts to make the pain go away. Finally I got to finish the whole thing.


( How can you bear it Prilkop...? )

Hello one and all! I finally got to doing some of the art I've been planning for the books. So this is it and I'm really open to comments, corrections, suggestions and of course compliments! Hmpf, not let's get serious again. Well a picture is a thousand words, so click click click below!!! ^_^


( Click click click, you know you want to! )

Hello my darlings! It's time for me to toss another bunch of drawings and such at you. This dump has a variety of stuff, and some stuff that was requested of me. I hope you all aren't getting too sick of all these scribbles X)

Again, thanks to everyone for being so friendly and having awesome discussions with me. This fandom has been nothing but warm and accepting :D



( it's a ship of fools [6] )



That's all for now. I am in the middle of re-reading The Tawny Man books, just up to the point the Bintgtowners come to Buckkeep, and while this part was interesting before, it has so much more meaning now :D Woooo! I love these books, crap.

And if you haven't noticed requests/suggestions are welcome X)

Hello people. I've had reasons to be shy about this, seeing how some great artists showed their work before me, but after a few glasses of apricot brandy, I am up to the challenge. *hehe*

So here it is, a drawing of mine starring Starling. (I'm in the mood for puns...)

Huumm...




Anyway. Her right hand is a bit crooked because her fingers were broken. I couldn't remember which fingers though (shame on me!). I wanted some purple and white because, if I'm not mistaken, that's Kettricken's colours? And the small thingie on her belt is supposed to be a fox head, too. But it's too small. So you got it, it's supposed to be post-The Farseers.
It was originally a sketch that turned out to look ok, but I messed up her face a bit when I drew it over on the computer (it looked really great before). I did it with Photoshop CS3. And, well, what else is there to say...
Ah, yes, I actually dislike Starling. A lot. She's so egocentric and whimsical (and having sex with Fitz when he should be with the Fool).
That's why I had never drawn here before (whereas I always draw a lot of Fitzs, Fools, Altheas, and so on). I suddenly thought she would be interesting to try, precisely because I have no interest in her. Er... well. Never mind my rambling. Constructive criticism is very welcome!

Hello my friends!

So I decided to gather up my nerves, toss them into a pool, drown them and display a picture I drew. I drew it of Amber, she's my favorite in the liveship trilogy. Obviously considering that she's the fool! hehe. But seriously, I think she is wicked cool.

So here it is

Enjoy!


( Click here please! )

Ok so, if anyone remembers (I doubt it) I said the very talented friend of mine who first introduced me to these books was possibly going to draw me a Verity-as-Dragon. (in exchange for a Nighteyes, which I provided with my painting previously posted.)

WELL HE DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID DRAW IT!!

And I have to share it because I am just losing my mind over it, it's so cool.



Verity-as-Dragon

I love this guy so much. And I love the tiny little Fitz and Nighteyes.

While I am posting this I'll share a few more excellent pictures I've found on deviantART lately. Wonderful books AND incredibly well done art?? Win.
A gorgeous Fool.
Delicious Fitz and Fool
"Take back your memories..."
Pieta a la Robin Hobb. This picture makes me want to sob :(
Fitz in his room
Kettricken and Rosemary
This one will always be one of my all-time favs.